TSP On This Day

Peter Higgins read English at Oxford University and Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. He was a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford and worked in the British Civil Service. His short stories have appeared in Fantasy: Best of the Year 2007, Best New Fantasy 2, Asimov's Science Fiction, Fantasy Magazine, Zahir and Revelation, and in Russian translation in the St Continue Reading →

Every so often a debate breaks out across the blogosphere about the comparative merits of literary versus genre literature, usually sparked by some comment advocating one of the two with some supercilious tone. The topic brings out heated rhetoric, often times boiling down to one's personal views on the shape of fiction as a whole. One thing is for sure, Continue Reading →

addBookLink("0060558121");Neil Gaiman ran a poll recently to see which books his fans would like to read online for free. The results are in and the winning book is American Gods. Sidebar podcast-interviews artist Jon Foster. [via The Art Department] Neal Asher shares some more cool Stephan Martiniere covers, this time from French version of his books. The shortlist for the Continue Reading →

The Horror Writers Association has announced the nominees for the 2011 Bram Stoker Award! [UPDATE:The nominees below reflect an amendment in the list of Short Fiction nominees. After the Preliminary Ballot was completed and the initial list of nominees issued one work was found to be ineligible and was replaced by the work which received the next highest number of Continue Reading →